Setback in Baghdad: Counter-Forensics and Counter-Terror
By Aaron Mannes
Counter-forensics has long been part of the terrorist playbook, so today’s attack on the central forensics lab in Baghdad is by no means unprecedented in the annals of terrorism.
CSI Belfast
According to Tony Geraghty’s fascinating The Irish War: The Hidden Conflict Between the IRA and British Intelligence the IRA was obsessed with preventing evidence from falling into the hands of British authorities. The developed extensive internal research and development capabilities to counter British forensic science and wrote manuals to train their members how not to leave evidence. The manuals get very detailed, including instructions about the dangers of incriminating particles and fibers in the hair and clothes of operatives.
The IRA had good reason to be concerned. British authorities found clothes and hair to be forensic bingo and actually ran an undercover operation disguised as a mobile valet service to gather forensic evidence.
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